tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
That logic doesn't work.
How many times have we seen companies that boasted about privacy be exposed harvesting and selling data, outright lying or at the very least being very sloppy? Social media, VPNs, hardware wallets, mail providers, etc.
Apple has not been exposed \*so far\*. It may be an indication that they're living up to their promises, but the default position should be that companies don't do what they say and the only way to keep them accountable is for them to be transparent (with open source, end-to-end encryption, and the like).
@codewiz I need some of those friends :)
Oh, my…
I became a vegetarian after my time in Japan, so I enjoyed okonomiyaki, sushi and all the rest while I lived there.
Now I lament that I will miss those flavours forever, and wonder how much I will enjoy food when I come back to visit.
Your post gave me hope, hehe.
…assuming what #Apple says is true, of course — which is impossible to verify because all they do is proprietary, closed and opaque…
#Lockdowns had “negligible impact” on #Covid mortality and were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”.
“The science of lockdowns is clear; the data are in: the deaths saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs imposed.”
“Lockdowns were a failed promise. They had negligible health effects but disastrous economic, social and political costs to society. Most likely lockdowns represent the biggest policy mistake in modern times.”
> _“The transition from a culture of the written word to a culture of images hinders what experts refer to as ‘deep literacy’. Digital leisure spares us from **the slow, introspective solitude of #reading #TheGreatestBooks**. […] **Only #books of considerable substance imbue us with a detailed understanding of various subjects while enabling a dialogue with the past**. […] **That's precisely what the great books offer. And ‘great books’ often happens to coincide with, well, ‘hefty books’**. In return, they demand solitude, immobility, and no company other than combinations of letters arranged in horizontal lines, carefully stacked into paragraphs. Are we still capable of the level of concentration required for deep reading? […] We exaggerate the artistic merits of television series to mask a shameful and growing ineptitude for engaging with substantial literary works.”_
https://www.elmundo.es/opinion/2023/05/23/646b7e2efc6c835a5d8b45ae.html
(Translation from the original by #ChatGPT)
> _«El paso de una cultura de la palabra a una cultura de la imagen impide lo que los expertos llaman “alfabetización profunda”. El ocio digital nos dispensa del **tiempo lento de la #lectura rumiosa y solitaria de las grandes obras**. […] **Solo los libros de cierto espesor imbuyen un conocimiento detallado de las materias, a la vez que permiten entablar un diálogo con el pasado**. […] Todo eso ofrecen **los #GrandesLibros, que a menudo son lo mismo, qué le vamos a hacer, que los libros gordos**. A cambio exigen estar a solas, inmóvil, sin otra compañía que combinaciones de letras dispuestas en líneas horizontales, cuidadosamente apiladas en párrafos. ¿Somos aún capaces del grado de concentración que comporta la lectura profunda? […] Tasamos al alza los atributos artísticos de las series de televisión para encubrir una vergonzante y creciente ineptitud para enfrascarnos en lectura de grandes #libros.»_
https://www.elmundo.es/opinion/2023/05/23/646b7e2efc6c835a5d8b45ae.html
@fidel It's astonishing.
tripu
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There's not bigger cognitive dissonance than sacrificing a lot of time and money and making a big emotional investment in taking care of one pet while being complicit in the suffering and slaughter of hundreds of animals.
“Poor Milo has an ear infection. After driving him to the vet and buying those expensive tablets for him, I'll wolf down this breast from a chicken which got its beak painfully amputated soon after it was born and whose legs got crushed by its own unnatural weight.”
“Little Luna would be so sad if let alone during our holidays… I'd better splurge on new toys for her and hire someone who can come along and check on her while we're away. But first, let's focus on this creamy bacon recipe, courtesy of a pig who only knew a dark cage and a cow forcibly impregnated and removed from its calf once a year, both of whom got their tails cut off without anesthesia…”
> _“To ensure line lengths don’t exceed 80 characters, the #CSS `max-width` property can be set using font-relative lengths of around `70ch` or `34em` (note that this value will need to be adjusted slightly up or down depending on the font used).”_
Ouch. You made it quite far. I hope it's short and uneventful!
tripu
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:loudspeaker: Introducing "AI-tiquette"! :robot_face::tophat: — blog.tripu.info https://blog.tripu.info/ai-tiquette/
Oops. Apparently the news piece was quite inaccurate (there was no simulation, just thinking out loud possible scenarios and risks).
And yet.
tripu
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You aren’t annoyed by cookie/consent screens.
You are annoyed by companies doing invasive acts that require them to obtain your consent.
You are annoyed by Google undermining browser technology that would have allowed your privacy preferences to be declared programmatically.
You are annoyed by surveillance capitalism being the primary monetization model online.
Get to the root of the problem.
> _“One simulated test saw an AI-enabled #drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no-go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the #AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission — killing SAMs — and then attacked the operator in the simulation. […] ‘We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say: yes, kill that threat. **The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.** […] We trained the system: hey don’t kill the operator, that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that. So what does it start doing? **It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.**’”_
Epic rap battle between #EliezerYudkowsky and #YannLeCun on #AIsafety:
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
